Crude-oil burner.



J. R. T. SMITH 65,8. DUTY.

GRUDE OIL BURNER. APPLIOATIO'N FILED JUNn, 1912.

Patented Feb. 18, 1913.Y

3o e E' l- 33 E.. 6657Lq71f7 34 '6 LQ 5aV O #54 eee@ UNITED STATES PATENT (miEicE.

JOHN R. T. SIlIITH AND SYLYVESTER DUTY, OF STAMPS, .AB/KANSAS.

CRUDE-OIL BURNER.

To'all whom it may concern Be it known that we, JOHN R. T. SMITH and SYLvEsTER DUTY, citizens ofthe United States, ,residing at Stamps, in the county7 of Lafayette, State of Arkansas, have invented certain ynew and useful Improvements in Crude-Oil Burners; and we do hereby declare the followingto be a .full, clear, and yexact description of the invention, such las'will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains' to make and use the same.l

his invention has special reference to crude 'oil burners and. 'the' primary ob]ectl of the invention consists in providing a novel and efficient crude oil burning device or apparatus adapted for application to an ordinar wood or coal stove of the heating or cooking type, so as to burn crude oil and greatly reduce the cost of nain/tenance from that of a stove burning W fuel. I .A

Another object ofthe invention is to prf vide a crude oil burning apparatus in which Water from a suitable tank is supplied to a Water heater or steam 'g erating pot for of st e m to commingle with a supply of oil from a similar tank or reservoir, so that part ofthe carbon of the oil or liquid hydro-carbon will decompose the same to burn w1th-`betterv combustion heater to steam iid. produce an intense heatnfor the yuse of the stove and also generate'th water inthe tion of the apparatus. l

Another and important object of the invention consists in providing a 4novel arrangement of. feed pipes controlling the supplies of each, `the .water and the oil, to provide means for ascertaining at all times, the" height of the water and oil in the respective tanks, to determine the pressure of the steam and also regulate the supplies of steam to the burner supply pipe for oil whereby when" the pressure becomes too great, independent escape of the steam may beI accomplished to'V reduce such pressure '-and insure of the supply of the steam tothe 'oil in theproper quantity.

A ystill further object of the 4invention consists 'in the provision of .a burner 'nozzle capable of being arranged at varying angles relative to the water heater or steam generating pot and inwliich the burner nozzle Vis so constructed as to spread 'the flame o rV blast throughout the area of the Vfire box whereby eiiicient heating or coal as for the continuous opera- Patented Eeaiaiais.

l qualities from 4a y minimum amount of liquid fuelfis obtained. With the above and other objects in view,

our invention will be more fully described,

illustrated in the `accompanying drawings which show a preferred embodiment 'of our: device and then specilicall lpointed out in the claims which are attac a part of this'application. y

n the drawings :-Figur e1 1is ya side ele vation of a cook stove 'of .the wood orcoal burning type having ourv improved crude oil burner or apparatiisattached tln'reto.r

Fig. 2 is an opposite side`r elevation there; 70

of. Fig. 3 is an enlarged longitudinal sec?"k tional view through the stove and parts off? thel apparatus. Fig.4 4 is across sectiginalI View taken on the line 4-4 ofy Figftaid looking in the direction indicated by the arrows. y

' In illustrating .an embodiment of. one-ap; plication of *thel invention, thermis* disclosed j a cook stove 10 of the coal or wood burning type, the same having the .usual supporting legs 11 and embracing an oven 12 and a fire box I13. The oven vand `fire box are l' separated by the usual center wall or partition 14 and the top wall 15 of the oven forms a--smoke flue or channel 16 with the Bt-"T4: top portion 17 of the stove while the ydraft 18 in l' is regulated by a turnable damper the usual manner. A grate 19 is mounted within the fire box and is arranged with an ash pit 20 therebeneathwhlile a draft slide 90 l 21 is provided at the frontend of the stove )for regulating the supply of air tothe fire ox. A bracket comprising spaced end members 22 and horizontal connecting members 95 23, is arranged at the rear end of thestove, the saidlend members haying their lower ends formed with divergent legs 24 to support the bracket in a standing position.

The upper ends of said end members. are

provided with curved `or arcuate cross arms 25 for supporting a cylindrical tank 26 thereon and transversely of the rear end of the stove.

The tank or reservoir 26 is closed at its ,105 ends and provided with a central partition 's-f wall 27 to divide the tank into two compartments, being a water containing compartment 28 at one end and a crude oil containing compartment 29 at the other wend. 110

Each compartment is provided witha removable feed cap or plug 30 .for supplying-i ed' to .and form carried by the casings or valves. 36 coinmunicating with .the interior of the compart- Y. ments at the bottomport-ions thereof. This -Vnecting rods-f'37fconnecting the respective -provided,wvith; leteoii or petcock 38 for 40 pipe .3 9 may be properly regu 1 l pends from the oil containing compartment .v relative position of thevalve46 to the tank.v

the -waterH and oil to the same'and further provided at the ends of the ta-nk with glass level ga es 31 communicating 'at their upper,I ends wi h the interio-r of the compartments- "Sat the top portions thereof through valves V32, the casings ofv whichv areprovided with apertured wings 33 for securing the glass vcylinder ofthe gages to similar wings 34 attachment is made througha pair of conywings-of:thevalves-and each lower valve is draining the valves andgage'tubes: It will f alsobe observedf'that the tank or reservoir 5,' 26 is` arrangedsabove the top of the stove andadapted to ,supply the water and oilby gravitygfthe f waterbeing fed through a de- -pendingfor slightly inclined feed pipe 39 .@whichextendsy along the :rea-i* side of the. v stove nearthe. top thereof and then through ,.;said wall land int-o the fire box 13`as shown at 4Q.` The yinner end=of the pipe section 40 isrconnected to a water heater or steam .generating pot 41 which comprises a' cylindrical metallic casing yor pipe section having capsl l '42 threaded on its ends and in turn coupled to'or receiving the threaded end of the pipe Y vlsectiontO-and a discharge pipe section 43 which" extends through the opposite `side walllof the,A stove. In this instance, the pipe f, 143 is extended through a hinged door 44 at 35,.'the end of there box adjacent to the oven f door 45, but it is obvious that since the y door f remainsiclosed during the use of the burner with thestove, any form of end Awall will 'suiiice.r -The supply of water through thel lated through Y the medium of a valve 46 situated nearI the -water compartment so that when the valve is closed, the greater portion of the feed l pipe will be drained by continued use of the 45 burner.

An oil vsupply pipe 47 of lessy diameter thangthe pipe 39 for supplying water, de-

at the opposite end of the tank and is disorposed 'in an inclined 1 positionat the front o side o'f the 'stove above. the oven door to similarly -feed the oil, the supply of which may be `regulated through the medium of a valve-48 also positioned adjacent 'to the tank and serving for a similar advantage as the :The lo'wer-o 4fowvard end of thepipe 47 is ,l ,extended along the front endofthe'stove as l shown `at 49.. and carries an inwardly extending'burner pipe 50 having a urner nozwardlyor downwardly at any inclination desired through the medium. of the threaded connect-ion of thepipe section 49 with the feed pipe 47. i .y The `burner nozzle 5l as illustrated, ein- L.bodies anapproximately frusto conical caswhich thereby permits the renewal of the strainer or gauze section as desired.

The outer end f of the discharge lpipe 43 i leading from thesteam pot is connected to the oil supply pipe through the medium of an elbow joint 5 6 which is preferably hori zontally disposedas illustrated in' Fig; 4 of the drawings and which carries a' steam pressure Vgage 57 to determine the pressure of the steam entering ythe oil pipe and permit-ting the convenient regulation of the discharge through the medium of a valve 58 interposed between the elbow joint and the vdisclnarge pipe for the steam. A drain pipe 59 extends downwardly' from the three Way jointvGO to which the valve 58 is connected and extends .downwardly in contradistinction to the upward extent of thev discharge leading to the oil pipe, while a valve 61 isvmounted in the drain pipe for drawing lsteam from the steam pot tolreduce the pressure while the valve 58 is either open or closed. The valve 58 is for the purposeiof regulatin the quantity of steam -fed into the .oil pip for -intermingling and heating the oil, which being in a crude state, is rendered considerably thinner and caused to flow more freely.

In the operation of vthe apparatus or burner, a combustible such as paper or shavings, is ignited beneath the steam pot or generator and `the valves `46 and 48 are opened to admit the waterand oil to the respective. feed pipes, the flowthrough which ,they regulate and the' water will til-l the /casing of said pot. -This `water* will be generated into 'steam and by opening thev valve 58, such steam'will be l discharged into the oil feeding pipe so as to commingle with .the voil lorhydrocarbon' Huid'and thus del' compose the same to producea large quantity oi` hydrocarbon gas. This gas will be discharged .through the burner nozzle 'at .ajhigh pressure, forced .by the supply of steam and bein ignited, will scattered in passing throug lthe strainer or gauze to i z1e351 threaded on its free end. hisburner. vproduce an intense heat throu hout a greater pipeis disclosedacgtending in an angular portion of the area .of the re box. The direction relatiye tthe front end 52 of th nicety by which the feedin ofthe-water, oil fire box and-at-'atangent relative to the cas-y sand steam, may be accom lished, greatly fe- @fiend-mambo adjusted or turned upcilitates the operation o the apparatus or can be obtained cost relative to Wood or coal burner and etlicient results at a very much decreased the cost of maintenance of a stove.

that we claim is 1. A burner for hydrocarbons comprising separate compartments for containing water and a liquid hydrocarbon, a steam generating pot having valved communication with the water supply compartment, a burner nozzle directed toward said pot, a supply member munication with the hydrocarbon containing compartment Afor supplying the burner for generating steam in said pot and a 'alved communication -between the pot and the hydrocarbon supply member for discharging steam thereinto distantly from the nozzle to commingle with the hydrocarbon for thinning the same and exuding from the nozzle iii a blast.

2. A ci'ude oil burner attachment for stoves embodying a bracket. a tank supported on said bracket, said tank having separate water and crude oil containing compartments, a supply member for each coinpartment, a steam generator for arrangement within the stove, supply 4pipes detach ably connected with the two compartments of the tank, one pipe being detaehably connected to the generator for supplying water thereto, a burner nozzle having connection with the other pipe and supplied with oil therethrough and a steam pipe also detachablyv connected to the generator for discharging the steam into the oil pipe, said latter pipe having a drain.

2. crude oil burner 'for stoves einbracing a water supply means, an oil supply means, ay cylindrical steam generating pot disposed in the stove for receiving a supply ot water, a horizontallyv arranged nozzle also disposed in the stove and connected with the oil supply means. said nozzle being langnlarly adjustable relative to the pot and a valved connection between the pot and the oil supply means exterior-ly of the stove for discharging steam generated in the pot into the oil supply means.

1. crude oil burner embracing a water reservoir. an oil reservoir. means for de- Copies of this patent may be obtained for therefor having valved coni-4 teimining the height of the fluid said reservoirs` a steam generator comprising a cylindrical c thereto, mean reservoir to t a burner nozzle, means asing and end caps secured s for supplying water from the he generator through one cap, for supplying oil from its reservoir to the nozzle and including a movable support tor the nozzle, means for supplying steam from the generator through the other capto the oil supply means to commingle with the oil oniits travel and previous the nozzle and to its discharge from independent means for determining and regulating the pressure of the steam entering the oil supply means.

5. A crude oil burner comprising a steam generator connected with the water supply, a burner nozzle directed toward the generator and having a spraying strainer, an

oil supply means for the burner,

said generator having valved communication with the oil supply means to furnish steam to intermingle with the. oil and force the same under pressure and charging the a valved outlet for dis'- steam from the generator simultaneously .or independently with the feeding of the steam to the oil, to regulate the pressure of the steam and the strength of the blast.

(i. In a crude oil burner, the combination with steam generating means; of an oil supply pipe. receiving a discharge therefrom and said pipe, said of steam a burner nozzle mounted on burner nozzle comprising a removable truste-conical casing, a strainer mounted at the mouth of the casing and a flanged collar threaded on the casing to removably secure the strainer thereto.

In testimony whereof, we atix our signatures. in presence of two Witnesses.

JOHN R. T. SMITH. SYLVESTER DUTY.

Witnesses to signature of John R. T.

Smith:

Duty:

J. llnwiN linnen, Finnois Borna.

Washingtonv D. C.

five cents each, by addressing thel Commissioner of Patents, 

